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Miner shoveling coal as it pours into a coal car.

1. Loading Coal Cars

2. Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars

Man walking on a train track beside two other tracks with coal cars on them.

3. Miner Walking Along Tracks Next to Coal Carts

Men carrying cans along track with coal cars.

4. Miner Walking Past Loaded Coal Cars

5. Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine

'This miner has just completed loading a mine oar of coal weighing net about two and one-half tons, and is waiting for a locomotive to come along and take it out and give him another empty oar.  An industrious miner will load about six and sometimes eight of these oars in one day.  This is a wooden mine car that is now being rapidly replaced by steel mine car equipment.  The number of posts shown in this picture indi- again [sic] the immense amount of timber required to conduct operations in a safe manner.'

6. Miner and Loaded Mine Car

7. Coal Miner at Work Underground

Front Row 'Left to Right'; N.T. Berry, North Western-Hanna, R.C. Larsen,North Western-Hanna, J.J. Larsen, North Western-Hanna. Back Row 'Left to Right'; Robert O'Conner, North Western-Hanna, J.E. Fier, North Western-Hanna, G.M. Allis, North Western-Hanna, M.L. Zhan, North Western-Hanna, Alfred Christopherson, North Western-Hanna, Harry Turner, Superintendent, Loveridge Mine.

8. Employees of the Loveridge Mine

Men sitting down on benches with mine diagrams on the walls. Joe Akers is on the right.

9. Miners in a Mine Office

A coal cutter with nine foot cutting blade at work in Consol. Coal Co. Mine No. 32, Owings, W. Va.

10. Cutting Machine in Operation at Mine No. 32

Close-up view of roof drill in action. Man in background is tightening bolt with air powered wrench at Consol. No. 204, Jenkins, Ky.

11. Miners Roof Bolting at Consol No. 204, Jenkins, Ky.

Two men sitting on a bench in a mine in an underground mine.  Sign reads, 'It is a dischargeable offence to run over any cable.'

12. Miners Seated on Bench in an Underground Mine.

13. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

Two men running a roof bolter in Jamison No. 9 mine.

14. Miner Roof Bolting at Jamison No. 9 Mine

15. Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine

Men at work with loading machine and shuttle car. Probably Joy Machinery.

16. Miners Operating a Loading Machine

Miners at work with loading machine and shuttle car.

17. Miner Operating a Loading Machine

Miner on a small, track mounted, cutting machine.

18. Miner Operating a Small, Track Mounted, Cutting Machine

A miner operating a coal cutting machine.

19. Coal Miner at Work

20. Cutting Coal Preparatory to Shooting It Down for Loading

Two men cutting coal in the parting.

21. Cutting Coal with Cavalier

Man cutting coal in Consol. Coal Co. Mine in Kentucky. Note the roof supports using jacks.

22. Miner Cutting Coal in Consol Mine in Kentucky

23. Joy Manufacturing Company Continuous Mining Machine

Two men operating a loading machine.

24. Loading Machine in Action at Mine No. 32

Miners leaving roofed man trip car at shifts end.

25. Miners Leaving Roofed Man-Trip Car At Shift's End, Consolidation Coal Company, Mine No. 32

Two miners operate the breast type coal cutting machine.

26. Breast Type Coal Cutting Machine, Consol Mine No. 26, Watson, W. Va.

Two miners operate a track mounted coal cutting machine.

27. Track Mounted Cutting Machine

Two men stand beside rail cars.  A cart a motor sits in  front of them.

28. Miners Stand by Steel Mine Railway Cars

A miner empties his shuttle car.

29. Shuttle Car Discharging Coal

A miner moves a fully loaded shuttle car down the mine shaft.

30. Loaded Coal Shuttle Car

Coal miner's shower room.

31. Miner's Showers, Hanna Coal Company

A miner operates an electric shuttle car in the mine.

32. Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car

Caption on back reads, 'Making a cut in the coal face is this Mastodon of the machine age - an underground cutter.  Rubber tired for mobility, and mounting a 9-foot cutting blade armed with whirring steel bits, it can cut a full 360 degree arc.  This and similar machines give America's bituminous coal mines almost unlimited capacity for production.'

33. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine at Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, Owings, W. Va.

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

34. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine in Pursglove No. 15 Mine

35. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

36. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting

Two men working with a rubber tire mounted cutting machine.

37. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

38. Miners Operating a Loading Machine in Jamison No. 9 Mine

39. Miner Marking a Coal Seam

40. Making a Cut in Coal Face Prior to 'Shooting Down' Coal

Two miners take samples of coal.

41. Miners Taking Samples of Coal

42. Miner Operating a Coal Loading Machine

Miners gathered in a typical Consol locker room with a modern bath house adjacent to it.

43. Typical Consol Locker Room

Two men working on the loading machine.

44. Coal Loading Machine in Operation at Jamison Mine No. 9

Two men placing charges in an already drilled hole. Notice the preparatory cut on upper right hand side.

45. Miners Placing Charges

Two miners digging coal in mine.

46. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

Two men with equipment putting up bolts to support the mine roof.

47. Miner Roof Bolting